How good a fight is Vitali Klitschko against Juan Carlos Gomez?
Look, I don’t think it’s gonna be the Thrilla in Manila. I don’t think you have too many Thrillas in Manilas anymore. You don’t have those kinds of athletes, those kinds of fighters, those kinds of people anymore. I don’t think you have that anymore. You have spoiled athletes in most of the sports and boxing is no different. Boxers get paid a lot of money and to a certain extent they treat it like it’s a business and they get away with things that the fighters of the past wouldn’t have gotten away with. Klitschko’s been away for a long time and he’s back now. He’s tall, he’s long, he has the kind of style where he controls range, he controls distance. He’s not a “go get you guy,” he’s not a “seek and destroy guy.” He tries to control his opponent with his long arms, and he’s fighting a southpaw, so that brings an interesting dimension into it. He’s fighting a guy in Gomez who’s also up there in age, not a spring chicken. Klitschko is 37 and Gomez is 35. I think there’s going to be a ta
